This hour, we’ll talk with Jonathan Rauch about his recent piece in The Atlantic, “How American Politics Went Insane.”
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America’s Role In The World
This hour we’ll talk about how the election and the next president will affect America’s role in the world. Our guests are writer Ben Fountain, who’s been reporting on the election for The Guardian and Jeffrey Engel, who directs the Center for Presidential History at SMU.
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Living In A Millennial World
This hour, we’ll talk about what older generations need to know about millennials’ values and how they vote. We’ll be joined by Paul Taylor, whose essay “It’s a Millennial World Now: Twelve Things to Know” appears in the summer issue of the Bush Institute journal The Catalyst.
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The President’s Nuclear Power
This hour, we’ll talk about the power a president has to deploy our nuclear arsenal – and about how those decisions are made – with Stanford political science professor Scott Sagan, an expert on weapons of mass destruction.
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Gun Deaths In America
This hour, we’ll explore the numbers behind gun deaths in the U.S. – and talk about how they can be reduced – with Ben Casselman, a senior editor and the chief economics writer for the website FiveThirtyEight.
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How War Became Everything
This hour, we’ll talk about how our modern concept of war has changed from a temporary to never-ending state with Rosa Brooks, author of “How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon.”
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Why Presidents Fail
This hour, we’ll talk about why some presidents deliver on high hopes and others don’t with Elaine C. Kamarck, senior Brookings fellow and founding director of the Center for Effective Public Management.
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The Strange Death of José de Jesús
This hour, we’ll talk about the death of José de Jesús in the Eloy Immigrant Detention Center last year with Maria Hinojosa, host of “Latino USA.
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A Think Special: Hillary Clinton And The Democratic Convention
Hillary Clinton will accept the nomination for president tonight at the Democratic National Convention. Today, we’ll devote both hours of our show to all things Clinton.
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Our Shared Tragedy
This hour, in partnership with WRKF in Baton Rouge and WWNO in New Orleans, KERA will air “12 Days in July: Our Shared Tragedy,” an hourlong special looking at how residents of Baton Rouge and Dallas are coping with the violence that visited their cities – and how all Americans might learn and move on from the events.
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A Think Special: Donald Trump And The Republican Convention
Donald Trump will accept the nomination for president tonight at the Republican National Convention. Today, we’ll devote both hours of our show to all things Trump.
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How Border Residents Think
This hour, we’ll talk about a major new survey of people living along the U.S.-Mexico border conducted by Arizona State University’s Cronkite News, Univision News, and The Dallas Morning News.
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